Homocrinus parvus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HomocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Homocrinus
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Homocrinus
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Homocrinus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Homocrinus parvus on record, most of them in the Silurian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
- Rochester Shale Formation · Clinton Group3
- Rochester Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Homocrinus parvus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Homocrinus parvus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Homocrinus parvus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Amphistrophia striata3 sites
- Arctinurus boltoni3 sites
- Dalmanites3 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis3 sites
- Fardenia (Coolinia)3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Hemicystites3 sites
- Icthyocrinus3 sites
- Lichenalia concentrica3 sites
- Macrostylocrinus3 sites
- Stegerhynchus3 sites
- Striispirifer niagarensis3 sites
- Trimerus3 sites
- Whitfieldella nitida3 sites
- Asaphocrinus2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Atrypina2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Bumastus ioxus2 sites
- Caryocrinites ornatus2 sites
- Chilotrypa2 sites
- Cornellites2 sites
- Cornulites2 sites
- Craniops2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Homocrinus parvus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America2
- Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology1
- New classification of the "Heterocrinidae"1
Each of the 4 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Homocrinus parvus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Homocrinus parvus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHomocrinus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1852